The gray dystopia is the term I've come to give to the evil that spreads through the lesser evil, the really boring and mundane form, the one that controls and removes options, all done in invisible ways. For instance, creating incentive structures that only allow people who are in favor of the technological system to rise to the top, or providing so much distraction and "entertainment" that no one pays attention to what is going on. This is in opposition to the overt totalitarianism of 1984 or the Luciferean evil of many of the villains in popular culture.
This type of evil always has reasonable and somewhat virtuous justifications to keep acting that way, the main one being safety but there are others, which is why it is the lesser evil and why people would rather have it. For instance, using more technology and control to deal with the problems of the technological system:
We will solve inequality! (even though the kind of inequality we find nowadays is only possible with a highly complicated and thus bureaucratic system)
We will deal with environmental issues! (which are caused by the processes of acquiring the energy or resources that our entire system is dependent on)
We will help 3rd world countries! (who have lost their traditional ways of living through the exploitation of 1st world countries)
We will provide support for mental health issues (which are caused by a society where having a basic sense of freedom in how one earns one's living, a supportive environment in the form of family and friends and other crucial needs in life are made incredibly difficult)
And even though it always promises safety and promotes values of 'non-violence', it is at the end of the day incredibly violent because coercion is the only way it can spread its way of living. From the total and mind-numbing coercion of children being forced to spend years of their life in school, to the third world country farms where workers aren’t treated much better than slaves, to the armed conflicts over scarce resources that go in all over the world, the system is most certainly violent, but of course, we are used to it, which is why few people bother talking about.
We know we live in a soulless and highly exploitative world, where even the ones who “win” - the richest and most famous people - are still miserable. But the whole thing is … kind of boring. The problems are too long term, too distant, the processes too diffuse and complicated in their operations. Better to talk about a few individuals like Trump or Putin, which by doing so will certainly give you approval amongst your peers.